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| Date: | 10 24 1984 |
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| Description: | Walter Mondale campaigns for president in 1984 during his failed run against Ronald Reagan. |
| Date: | 03 09 1989 |
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| Description: | Calvin Johnson, right, Custer High School chess champion, takes on Paul Henk to defend his title. |
| Date: | 12 29 1987 |
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| Description: | Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib... |
| Date: | 06 24 1988 |
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| Description: | A caravan of carts full of recyclables is towed by the man who collected them to earn a little extra cash. |
| Date: | 07 07 1984 |
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| Description: | Steam locomotive No. 1385 moves along the tracks as part of the Butler Railroad Days. |
| Date: | 08 16 1984 |
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| Description: | Young men, workers for the Carson & Barnes Circus, carrying heavy circus tent poles through a field. |
| Date: | 09 10 1983 |
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| Description: | Liz Walden looks over empty boxes of laundry soap collected in a Refund Swap Convention at Our Lady of Good Hope School. |
| Date: | 10 04 1983 |
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| Description: | A man looks over parking meters that are some of the items for sale at the first Milwaukee County Recycling Center sale. |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over... |
| Date: | 07 30 1984 |
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| Description: | Bertha Hynek of Allenton is eating an ice cream cone while her grandson, Wesley Priesgen, 10, works on an ear of roasted corn. |
| Date: | 06 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Aimee Weiss(left), 10, and Darby Cusick, 11, both of Elm Grove, take a spin Thursday on one of the rides at Wirth Park. |
| Date: | 06 19 1983 |
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| Description: | Tina Polley looked through a pair of large clown eyeglasses as she ate an ice cream cone at an Ice Cream and Pie Social at St. Francis Episcopal Church. |
| Date: | 07 26 1981 |
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| Description: | Maynard Entringer of South Milwaukee is awarded the World Championship of the Kraut Eating Contest by the Queen of the Kraut Festival, Sharon Kerkman of Bu... |
| Date: | 06 05 1989 |
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| Description: | People costumed as Smokey The Bear and Woodsy Owl play outdoors with children as a forest service worker looks on. |
| Date: | 08 03 1981 |
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| Description: | Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e... |
| Date: | 04 05 1981 |
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| Description: | 400 people march to a rally where they demand that the birthday of Martin Luther King, (January 15) be declared a national holiday. |
| Date: | 12 19 1984 |
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| Description: | Hanukkah Ceremony - Abraham Anton uses a servant candle, called the Shamas, to light the first candle of Hanukkah Tuesday night as fellow students watch at... |
| Date: | 12 17 1982 |
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| Description: | Operetta Scene - The Hansberry-Sands Theater Company performed a scene from "Black Nativity" at St. Agnes Church, 4055 N. 25th St. |
| Date: | 10 30 1984 |
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| Description: | A five-story tall inflatable gorilla attracted potential buyers to a special sale at the Uptown Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Wauwatosa. Although the pres... |
| Date: | 11 12 1981 |
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| Description: | The Crescent Garage. Although the photograph dates from 1981, the curb-side gas pumps are a throwback to the early days of gas stations. The Crescent Garag... |
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